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Former El Rukn `General' To Be Sentenced On Monday

October 29, 1995

The last El Rukn cooperator is scheduled to be sentenced Monday in federal court. Derrick Kees, a hit man for the notorious South Side street gang, provided important testimony for the government at a series of trials before the case exploded in controversy amid accusations of misconduct by prosecutors.

Kees' sentencing was delayed when he sought to withdraw his guilty plea.

Last April, Chief U.S. District Judge Marvin Aspen refused to jettison the plea deal, but he promised to consider reducing Kee's proposed 99-year prison sentence.

Kees was one of six former El Rukn "generals" who formed the bulwark of the government's massive case.

At least one retrial remains to be held after several federal judges concluded prosecutors hid damaging evidence about government witnesses from the defense at the initial trials.

Aspen is scheduled to sentence Kees at 9:30 a.m. Monday in the Dirksen Federal Building.